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Do you think we're headed towards a future like the Matrix or more like the Terminator?
hoping for star trek future-- although that means the next 40-50 years will be pretty terrible.
Bell Riots are coming this year. The Second American Civil War starts in 2026, which leads directly into WWIII.
From there, everything is pretty much terrible until warp drive is invented.
it's creepy how specific (and prophetic) the star trek writers were about our future. other than the Eugenics Wars not happening in the 90s, they've been pretty spot-on. let's just hope that they're right about April 5, 2063.
No eugenics wars in the 90s? The Bosnia-Serbian conflict??
The one predicted in Star Trek had to do with genetically engineered Superman, trying to take over the world. So a little bit different than that.
Classic Bosnian-Serbian conflict!!
The Bell Riots story line is by far my fave DS9 arc. There’s a really good Terry Pratchett book with roughly the same concept that is also my favorite of his books. It’s called Night Watch.
Well, it would be nice to think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
🖖 <-- that light
How many lights do you see?
FOUR!
Three. I hope that isn't a train.
edit: I think it is a train.
We'll be lucky to have any kind of future
I think it'll be 90% idiocracy and 10% Capitalist Star Trek
Is that a thing? I would like to see that.
Ferengie
Dune. There will be a butlerian jihad against thinking machines.
But at least we get drugs that let us see the future
Welp, there goes autocomplete on my phone.
I must not fear... good advice for the future.
Idiocracy.
winner
I'm still holding out for Weird Science.
You mean the chick with the big big titties?
Still hoping for Stargate
Unlike the show, humanity would totally be enslaved by worm heads in like, a day.
Seems nice enough
The Road.
This scenario wasn't in either movie. This is more like something out of Time Gate.
Does that one have a happy ending?
I didn't know. I never finished it. I'm kinda curious now, though.
What's Time Gate?
It's a sci-fi setting where AI is used to "resurrect" famous dead people, and there's a virtual world where all of these famous people can interact. So, you could have a synthetic Socrates debating a synthetic Mark Twain, for example.
I thought it was ridiculous, but it really looks like that's the way we're headed now.
Ah, so Wall-e.
You're right. It'll definitely be more like Equilibrium.
I don't think so. I haven't even seen Heat, Logan's Run, or Pan's Labyrinth.
My crystal ball says Muppet Treasure Island. Sick.
No, I've seen that one.
Idiocracy has my vote.